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Wow! eBook: Smashing Node.js - 4 new eBooks

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Smashing Node.js

Posted: 04 Mar 2013 04:23 AM PST

Smashing Node.js

Book Description

Learn to make more efficient apps, with just one language!

Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere equips you with the necessary tools to understand Node.js and its uses in developing efficient web apps. With more traditional web servers becoming obsolete, having knowledge on servers that achieve high scalability and optimal resource consumption using Node.js is the key to your app development success. Teaching you the essentials to making event-driven server-side apps, this book demonstrates how you can use less space and take less time for communication between web client and server.

  • Contains numerous hands-on examples
  • Explains implementation of real-time apps including Socket.IO and HTML5, and WebSockets
  • Addresses practical Node.js advantages from specific design choices
  • Demonstrates why knowledge and use of JavaScript is beneficial
  • Includes an interactive online component with sample chapters
  • Explains components of stand out apps including brevity and benchmarks

Looking to enhance your abilities even further? Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere makes developing server-side apps accessible with its focus on JavaScript, open source, and easy-to-use language.

From the Back Cover
From the World's Number One Resource for Web Designers and Developers – The Ultimate Guide to the Technology That's Taking the Web Development World by Storm

Node.js is a powerful web development framework written in JavaScript that makes it simpler and easier than ever to develop robust, highly-scalable server-side web apps. Smashing Node.js shows you what Node.js is and how to put it to work on your next project. Packed with real-world examples that demonstrate why Node.js is quickly becoming the tool of choice among web developers everywhere, it gets you quickly up and running with the knowledge and skills you need to:

  • Make sense of Node's Event-Loop Architecture, Non-Blocking I/O, and Event-Driven Programming
  • Master the Ins and Outs of Node's Apis
  • Effortlessly Implement Real-Time Technologies, Such as Shocket.IO and HTML5 Websockets
  • Program Apps That Scale Up to Support Vast Numbers of Simultaneous Connections Across Multiple Servers
  • Leverage Node's Ability to Support an Array of Database and Data Storage Tools
  • Write Code That Can Handle Tens of Thousands of Connections at a Time—On One Machine
  • Interact in Real-Time With Other Developers on a Companion Web Site Featuring Additional Chapters and More Annotated Examples—Source Code Included

Beautifully illustrated with tons of full-color illustrations and packed with useable source code, Smashing Node.js is your total guide to the revolutionary web development tool.

Table of Contents
PART I: GETTING STARTED: SETUP AND CONCEPTS
Chapter 1. The Setup
Chapter 2. JavaScript: An Overview
Chapter 3. Blocking and Non-blocking IO
Chapter 4. Node JavaScript

PART II: ESSENTIAL NODE APIS
Chapter 5. CLI and FS APIs: Your First Application
Chapter 6. TCP
Chapter 7. HTTP

PART III: WEB DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 8. Connect
Chapter 9. Express
Chapter 10. WebSocket
Chapter 11. Socket.IO

PART IV: DATABASES
Chapter 12. MongoDB
Chapter 13. MySQL
Chapter 14. Redis

PART V: TESTING
Chapter 15. Code Sharing
Chapter 16. Testing

Book Details

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley (September 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1119962595
  • ISBN-13: 978-1119962595
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Smashing UX Design

Posted: 04 Mar 2013 04:17 AM PST

Smashing UX Design

Book Description

The ultimate guide to UX from the world's most popular resource for web designers and developers

Smashing Magazine is the world′s most popular resource for web designers and developers and with this book the authors provide the ideal resource for mastering User Experience Design (UX).

The authors provide an overview of UX and User Centred Design and examine in detail sixteen of the most common UX design and research tools and techniques for your web projects.

The authors share their top tips from their collective 30 years of working in UX including:

  • Guides to when and how to use the most appropriate UX research and design techniques such as usability testing, prototyping, wire framing, sketching, information architecture & running workshops
  • How to plan UX projects to suit different budgets, time constraints and business objectives
  • Case studies from real UX projects that explain how particular techniques were used to achieve the client’s goals
  • Checklists to help you choose the right UX tools and techniques for the job in hand
  • Typical user and business requirements to consider when designing business critical pages such as homepages, forms, product pages and mobile interfaces as well as explanations of key things to consider when designing for mobile, internationalization and behavioural change.

Smashing UX Design is the complete UX reference manual. Treat it as the UX expert on your bookshelf that you can read from cover-to-cover, or to dip into as the need arises, regardless of whether you have ‘UX’ in your job title or not.

From the Back Cover
Everything You Need to Plan, Research, and Design Great User Experiences

UX design is one of the hottest growth areas on the web. The demand for good UX practitioners has never been greater. A great user experience is now recognized as a fundamental quality of successful digital products. So how do you design great user experiences if you don't have a UX expert on hand to help you? What are the key tools and techniques every UX specialist should have at their disposal?

Smashing UX Design is a practical reference manual for UXers, designers, developers, and product managers to refer to as the UX expert on their bookshelf.

Written by two of the UK's foremost UX practitioners, Smashing UX Design provides you with a solid foundation in UX principles and practices. It includes ready-to-use tools and techniques for designing commercially successful digital products. You will learn how to satisfy users' needs, meet their expectations and beyond. It covers all the bases, including:

  • Understanding User-Centered Design
  • Planning UX Projects and Evaluating UX Designs
  • Understanding User and Business Needs
  • Conducting Usability Testing, Requirements Workshops, Contextual Research, and More
  • Learning UX Design Tools and Techniques
  • Task Modeling, Information Architecture, Site Maps, Wireframes, and More
  • Design Recipes for Great UX Components such as Homepages and Product Pages

Smashing UX Design provides web designers and developers with all the tools, techniques, and practical, hands-on guidance they need to make their lives easier.

Table of Contents
PART I: UX PROCESSES AND PROJECTS
Chapter 1. Understanding the User-Centered Design Process
Chapter 2. Planning UX Projects

PART II: UX RESEARCH AND EVALUATION TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
Chapter 3. Planning and Conducting Effective Stakeholder Interviews
Chapter 4. Organizing and Running a Successful Requirements Workshop
Chapter 5. Planning, Conducting, and Analyzing a Usability Test
Chapter 6. Gaining Useful Insights from Competitor Benchmarking
Chapter 7. Conducting Effective Contextual Research
Chapter 8. Using Analytics to Uncover Interesting User Behavior
Chapter 9. Designing, Launching, and Analyzing a Successful Survey
Chapter 10. Conducting a Useful Expert Review

PART III: UX DESIGN TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
Chapter 11. Planning and Running Successful Ideation Workshops
Chapter 12. Creating Task Models and User Journeys That Convey Real User Behavior
Chapter 13. Creating Customer Experience Maps to Help Visualize the User Experience
Chapter 14. Creating Useful Persona Profiles
Chapter 15. Designing Usable Information Architectures
Chapter 16. Using Sketching to Generate and Communicate Ideas
Chapter 17. Designing Great Wireframes
Chapter 18. Using Prototypes to Bring Your Ideas to Life

PART IV: UX COMPONENTS DECONSTRUCTED
Chapter 19. Navigation UX Deconstructed
Chapter 20. Homepage UX Deconstructed
Chapter 21. Category Page UX Deconstructed
Chapter 22. Search UX Deconstructed
Chapter 23. Product Page UX Deconstructed
Chapter 24. Shopping Cart and Checkout UX Deconstructed
Chapter 25. Article and Content Page UX Deconstructed
Chapter 26. Photo UX Deconstructed
Chapter 27. Help and FAQ UX Deconstructed
Chapter 28. Forms UX Deconstructed
Chapter 29. Tables, Charts, and Data UX Deconstructed
Chapter 30. Great Client UX Deconstructed
Chapter 31. Designing for Behavioral Change
Chapter 32. Designing for Internationalization
Chapter 33. Designing for Mobile

Book Details

  • Paperback: 446 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley (June 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470666854
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470666852
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Smashing WordPress, 3rd Edition

Posted: 04 Mar 2013 04:13 AM PST

Smashing WordPress, 3rd Edition

Book Description

The ultimate guide to WordPress, from the world’s most popular resource for web designers and developers

As one of the hottest tools on the web today for creating a blog, WordPress has evolved to be much more that just a blogging platform and has been pushed beyond its original purpose. With this new edition of a perennially popular WordPress resource, Smashing Magazine offers you the information you need so you can maximize the potential and power of WordPress. WordPress expert Thord Daniel Hedengren takes you beyond the basic blog to show you how to leverage the capabilities of WordPress to power advanced websites.

  • Addresses new theming options, custom post types, custom headers, menus, background, and more
  • Explains how to build beautiful and unique WordPress themes and creating amazing navigation
  • Walks you through building plugins, integrating theme options, creating custom login forms and admin themes, and using the Loop to control content
  • Zeroes in on building a WordPress project for SEO
  • Highlights integrating WordPress with the social web

Smashing WordPress, Third Edition teaches you how to make WordPress look any way you like—from a corporate site to a photography gallery and much, much more!

From the Back Cover
GO BEYOND THE BLOG

WordPress guru Thord Daniel Hedengren takes you beyond the blog to give you the tools and know-how needed to build just about anything in WordPress. You’ll discover how to use WordPress as a CMS to power full-fledged websites, photo galleries, forums, eCommerce sites, and much more. You get step-by-step instructions on developing model sites from the ground up and for developing plugins that let you take WordPress to the next level.

YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO:

  • Use custom post types and custom taxonomies
  • Add and work with the new custom features
  • Build gorgeous WordPress themes
  • Create custom login forms and admin themes
  • Control content with the loop (and alternatives to the loop)
  • Integrate theme options
  • Develop powerful plugins-including widget functionality-from scratch
  • Build WordPress projects for SEO
  • Integrate WordPress with the social web
  • Create helpful navigation
  • Use conditional control elements

Updated to reflect the latest changes to WordPress 3.3 and featuring stunning new examples of some of the most innovative WordPress sites on the web. Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, 3rd Edition is the ultimate guide to pushing WordPress to the limit.

Table of Contents
PART I: GETTING STARTED WITH WORDPRESS
Chapter 1. The Anatomy of a WordPress Install
Chapter 2. The WordPress Syntax
Chapter 3. The Loop

PART II: DESIGNING AND DEVELOPING WORDPRESS THEMES
Chapter 4. WordPress Theme Essentials
Chapter 5. The Child Theme Concept
Chapter 6. Advanced Theme Usage

PART III: USING PLUGINS WITH WORDPRESS
Chapter 7. The Anatomy of a WordPress Plugin
Chapter 8. Plugins or functions.php?

PART IV: ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND FUNCTIONALITY
Chapter 9. Using WordPress As a CMS
Chapter 10. Integrating the Social Web
Chapter 11. Design Trickery
Chapter 12. Fun with Media
Chapter 13. Extra Functionality
Chapter 14. Uncommon WordPress Usage

PART V: APPENDIXES
Appendix A. Essential WordPress Plugins
Appendix B. Starter Themes

Book Details

  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 3rd Edition (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1119942713
  • ISBN-13: 978-1119942719
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The Smashing Idea Book

Posted: 04 Mar 2013 04:09 AM PST

The Smashing Idea Book

Book Description

An unparalleled compendium of inspirational designs, photos, and web site looks

As the world’s most popular resource for web designers and developers, Smashing Magazine has a reputation for inspiring and informing and this new book upholds that stellar esteem. Unlike most other books available on the shelf that only provide thumbnail images, The Smashing Idea Book offers a lavish array of timeless and enduring graphic designs, photos, images, and web site designs… and then goes one step further to present you with practical guidance on how to apply this inspirational selection to your own designs.

You’ll benefit from the coverage on current trends as well as valuable advice on where to go online to discover your own sources of inspiration.

  • Provides inspiration to web designers from a variety of sources, including existing web site designs, graphic designs, product design, photography, and more
  • Encourages you to look to all areas of your life for inspiration and provides you with methods for finding more creativity beyond the book
  • Offers helpful advice on how to use those visuals as inspiration and translate them into unique and memorable web site designs
  • Examines what makes for good design, looks at a variety of web site design styles, and explores other avenues of inspiration including fashion, architecture, and interior design

The Smashing Idea Book is a great idea if you’re looking for design inspiration and motivation!

From the Back Cover
Smashing Ideas for Inspired Design

If your creative well has run dry or you are simply looking for ideas for you next design, The Smashing Ideas Book is a rich source of inspiration. Inside, Cameron Chapman offers hundreds of smashing ideas guaranteed to get your creative juices flowing and your mind buzzing.

Chapman zeros in on such universal elements of great design as color, shape, texture, balance, proportion, rhythm, and unity. She supplies over 700 amazing examples drawn from websites, as well as from the worlds of photography, product packaging, architecture, interior design, fashion, furniture, toys, everyday objects, and more.

An endless source of inspiration and design ideas, The Smashing Idea Book gives you:

  • Dozens of screenshots from all kinds of websites
  • Hundreds of superb full-color photos of great designs, from architecture to fashion to children's toys
  • Invaluable insights into the universal components of great design for any medium
  • Priceless pointers on how to break through designer's block
  • Simple tricks for making existing designs sizzle like never before
  • Tips on how to find design inspiration in everyday life

Table of Contents
PART I: FINDING INSPIRATION
Chapter 1. Types of Inspiration
Chapter 2. What Makes a Good Design?

PART II: INSPIRING IMAGES
Chapter 3. Website Designs
Chapter 4. Other Designs
Chapter 5. Photography

PART III: USING INSPIRATION
Chapter 6. Creating Something New from Direct Inspiration
Chapter 7. Creating Something New from Abstract Inspiration
Bonus Chapter. Finding Inspiration in Everyday Life

Book Details

  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley (August 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1119977428
  • ISBN-13: 978-1119977421
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